ARCHITECT

In this podcast episode, OBAT Helpers executive director Immad Ahmed discusses the design constraints that faced the community and how the team leveraged local expertise to create long-term communities in largely temporary spaces.

Questioning the need for equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives should not spark controversy or guilt, says Samantha McCloud, director of community involvement, diversity & inclusion at GastingerWalker& in this podcast episode.

New York-based CODA founder, Caroline O'Donnell outlines her emphasis on dialogue and with engaging with the context of a project, as well as her forthcoming book that connects architecture and the werewolf.

Shepley Bulfinch CEO Carole Wedge describes her path to leadership, starting from the mailroom, and why she wishes more architects would "stop talking" about revolutionizing the profession and "start implementing." And, yes, she also offers advice for how to respond to ignorant comments and actions on the jobsite and elsewhere.

Recent Next Progressives Ann Lui, AIA, and Craig Reschke, AIA, of Chicago-based Future Firm discuss their approach to design and when they'll know they've made it.

The profession would benefit from a workforce with a representative range of backgrounds and experiences, says National Organization of Minority Architects president Kimberly Dowdell.

In this podcast episode, the jury of the 66th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards—which included Paul Andersen, AIA, of Denver-based Independent Architecture; J. Frano Violich, FAIA, of Boston-based Kennedy & Violich Architecture; and Claire Weisz, FAIA, of New York's WXY Architecture + Urban Design—discusses how they each define progressive architecture, how it manifests itself in the industry, and how it has evolved over time.

In this podcast episode, ARCHITECT speaks with three experts with firsthand knowledge, insights, and opinions about the lure of smart cities: Paul Doherty, an architect and the chairman and CEO of the international company The Digit Group (TDG); Debra Lam, managing director of the Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation initiative at Georgia Tech, founder of the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge, and the former chief of innovation and performance for the city of Pittsburgh; and Anthony Townsend, founder of New York–based Bits and Atoms and author of Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013).

San Francisco's Office of Resiliency and Capital Planning recently commissioned a landmark study that offers preemptive actions for mitigating earthquake damage. In this episode, Danielle Mieler, principal resilience analyst at San Francisco’s Office of Resiliency and Capital Planning (ORCP) and vice president of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, in Oakland, Calif., walks through the salient takeaways and recommendations from the Tall Building Safety Strategy.

Designed by Bruner/Cott & Associates, Hampshire College's R.W. Kern Center is the largest higher education project to earn the green certification. This episode features former Hampshire College president, Johnathan Lash, and Jason Jewhurst, principal, Bruner/Cott & Associates.